Brandon Weston grew up hearing "strange" stories about his multi-generational Ozarks family, rooted in the area since the 1800s. A popular one was about his great uncle Bill, who was considered a ...

(RNS) — Growing up, Ani Kalafian had heard stories of how her great-grandmother, an Armenian healer living in Iran, had the power to heal by touch. But after her mother’s family migrated to the United ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Generations of Latino families across Texas have turned to traditional healers when sickness or pain set in. A whispered “sana sana colita de rana” from an Abuelita, an egg rolled ...

EDINBURG, Texas -- On a recent day, Chriselda Hernandez heard a knock at her door in the Texas border town of Edinburg. It was a college student who said she was suffering from a string of bad luck. A ...

ALBUQUERQUE Evil eye. Magical fright. A sick soul. These are all afflictions usually treated by traditional Mexican healers known as curanderos. And this summer, an Albuquerque museum is planning an ...

For the California Report, Sara Bernard catches up with a clinical herbalist and folk healer to learn about a special heart remedy, and to participate in a traditional ceremony to help transcend her ...

Q: I grew up in South Texas going to the family ranch with my father, who was an excellent self-taught botanist and biologist. He had learned a lot of folk medicine from his father's Hispanic cowhands ...

Deep in the woods of Fayette County, close to the river she would eventually be named after, there lived a witch. Whether or not she rode a broom was never mentioned, but she was able to fly by ...